Keep Your Friends Close and the Gleeful Chroniclers of Your Ignominous Decline Closer

Gawker has naturally had a field day in documenting and amplifying James Frey's outing as that guy at the end of the bar who claims to have done a nickel in Sing-Sing and has a whole bunch of girlfriends in Canada that you shouldn't try to get in touch with.

Which is why this tidbit, dated December 7, 2005, on Frey's web site made me choke up a bit at the Fox and the Hound-ness of it all:

Have a friend Jessica Coen doing a reading next week in NY she runs a great site called Gawker ceck [sic] her out if you have a chance.